Most AI tools generate generic lessons. CourseSmith generates lessons from your actual textbooks.
Upload your syllabus and course materials. CourseSmith learns your curriculum, learns your teaching style, and creates personalised lesson plans, tests, assignments, and weekly schedules — grounded in the books you actually teach from.
Generate complete, structured lesson plans from your uploaded textbooks — personalised to your teaching style, year group, and learning objectives.
Generic AI lesson planners write from the internet. CourseSmith writes from your textbooks. Upload your course materials through the Syllabus Manager and CourseSmith builds a knowledge model of your exact curriculum — the chapters, the concepts, the sequence. Everything it generates from this point is grounded in your actual teaching materials.
Select a topic from your uploaded syllabus. Tell CourseSmith the year group, session length, and learning objectives. Get a complete lesson plan: starter, main teaching content sourced from your textbook, formative assessment moments, differentiation, and plenary. Plans are editable and downloadable. No generic templates. Your books, your students.
Select the chapters, question types, difficulty, and total marks. CourseSmith generates a complete test or assignment drawn from your uploaded textbook — not a generic question bank. Every question is relevant to what you've actually taught. Edit any question. Export as PDF or editable format. Include the answer key.
CourseSmith tracks student performance across every assessment and activity. The analytics dashboard shows you individual student progress, class-wide topic scores, and which concepts need re-teaching. Identify struggling students weeks before results — not weeks after.
See how CourseSmith responds to a real teacher's request. Select a scenario below.
Secondary school biology teacher selects Chapter 4 (Cell Division) from their uploaded textbook. Sets: Year 10 · 60-minute lesson · learning objective: understand mitosis stages. CourseSmith generates a complete structured lesson plan referenced from the uploaded textbook.
Secondary · High School · Primary
You teach multiple classes, cover a packed syllabus, mark constantly, and plan in evenings and weekends. CourseSmith handles the planning. Upload your scheme of work and textbooks once — generate lesson plans, tests, and weekly schedules in minutes, not hours.
HE · FE · Module Leaders · Graduate Teaching
You have research commitments alongside teaching. CourseSmith makes lecture preparation faster — upload your module textbooks and reading lists, generate structured session plans and formative assessments grounded in your actual academic content, and track cohort performance across assessments.
Private Tutors · Training Centres · L&D Teams
You need personalised materials for each student or learner group. CourseSmith generates targeted lesson plans and assessments from the specific materials relevant to each client — whether that's GCSE maths revision, professional certification content, or bespoke corporate training modules.
Tell CourseSmith how you teach — your style, preferences, and approach. It uses this to personalise everything it generates for you.
⏱ 5 minutes onceUpload your course textbooks and syllabus through the Syllabus Manager. CourseSmith reads and indexes every chapter in under 2 minutes.
⏱ Under 2 minutesSelect what you need: lesson plan, weekly schedule, test, assignment. CourseSmith generates it from your uploaded materials, personalised to your teaching style.
⏱ 1–3 minutes per itemEdit and download lesson plans, tests, and schedules. Track student performance in the analytics dashboard across every assessment.
⏱ Ongoing“CourseSmith has genuinely transformed how I plan. I used to spend Sunday evenings building lesson plans from scratch. Now I upload my chapter, set my year group and objectives, and have a complete plan in under 3 minutes — grounded in my actual textbook, not some generic template. It's given me my weekends back.”
“The term schedule feature alone is worth it. I teach 4 groups across GCSE and A-Level. Building 4 separate term planners used to take me a full Saturday. CourseSmith mapped all four across 14 weeks — with revision blocks before assessments built in — in about 10 minutes. The test generator is equally impressive.”
“The analytics caught something I would have missed. Four students in my Year 10 group were consistently weak on one chapter — not failing overall, so it wasn't obvious. CourseSmith surfaced it after their second test. I ran a targeted re-teach session the following week. Their mock results were significantly better as a result.”
Everything teachers need to know about AI lesson planning with CourseSmith.
Join teachers, lecturers, and tutors using CourseSmith to plan every lesson, schedule every term, and assess every student — from their actual uploaded curriculum, not generic AI.
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